Ut radios edit (Orlando di Lasso)

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  • (Posted 2018-02-19)  CPDL #48868:    (MIDI)    
Editor: Pothárn Imre (submitted 2018-02-19).   Score information: A4, 6 pages, 120 kB   Copyright: CPDL
Edition notes: Transcribed from Selectissimae cantiones, 1568. Original pitch (chiavi naturali) and note values. Alto part is in tenor clef.

General Information

Title: Ut radios edit
Composer: Orlando di Lasso
Lyricist:

Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB
Genre: SecularMotet

Language: Latin
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1565 in Modulorum 4-10 vocibus secundum volumen, no. 13
    2nd published: 1568 in Selectissimae cantiones, no. 2.32
    3rd published: 1570 in Mellange d'Orlande de Lassus, no. 76
    4th published: 1579 in Altera pars selectissimarum cantionum, no. 37
    5th published: 1582 in Le thresor de musique, Edition 2, no. 144
    6th published: 1604 in Magnum opus musicum, no. 312
Description: Two-part motet:

I. Ut radios edit
II. Non tenui Musae

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Original text and translations

Latin.png Latin text

Ut radios edit rutilo carbunculum auro,
 Sic inter Cereris munera Musa nitet.
Ut viridis nitido smaragdus in aere superbit,
 Sic decet harmonicum carmen ubique merum
Quam subito mutat mentes symphonia vocum
 Mentes emollit nec probat esse feras.

Non tenui Musae filo celebranda vetustas,
 Congressus coluit mentis honore pios,
Nulla fuit crapulae luxus venatio nusquam
 Ambitio longe bilis iniqua fuit.
Gestorum voluit portus convivia nervos
 Firmandi pariter foedus amicitiae.